Skill building

Paul Bernard MA'75

Paul Bernard is an executive coach, recruiter, and small business consultant with more than 25 years of experience. He is the founder and principal of Paul Bernard & Associates, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. His unique services have helped thousands of executives find jobs and advance their careers after landing a position. Paul holds an M.A. from Duke University and has provided his services to 500+ Duke alums. Paul offers Duke alums a 30% discount on the initial appointment and a 15% discount on all subsequent appointments. Further information about Paul and his services can be found on his site: http://www.paulbernard.net/

Moll McDonald '94

Molly's expertise is working with individuals throughout career and life transitions. Molly provides organizational, life and clinical coaching. She supports her clients in career strategy, search strategy, interviewing skills, compensation negotiation, and assessing viable opportunities.

Lawrence Hedblom '78

Lawrence specializes in helping individuals make the transition from management to leadership in middle to senior level positions. He uses a variety of approaches and assessments to help clients make gains in confidence, satisfaction, and performance.

Debby Stone '84, JD'89

Debby believes that a career path should leverage an individual’s natural abilities, as well as the values and skills they’ve developed over time. Debby is the author of The Art of Self-Promotion: Tell Your Story, Transform Your Career, and she helps her clients speak confidently about who they are and what they do. She coaches her clients to create individualized career roadmaps, build decision-making confidence and develop practical strategies for continued success. Coaching topics include self-promotion, career management, communication skills, career transition, executive presence and leadership skills.

Susan Gurnik - MBA'90

Susan specializes in clients that are looking for a change but not sure which direction to go, or don't know how to do the job search because they have no clarity surrounding the perfect job. She helps clients gain clarity, discover and define their personal brand, and network to that next job.

Kristi Dinsmore - MBA'96

Kristi works with clients to transition to new roles, move up in their current careers, and increase their contribution to an organization. She uses a variety of assessments to help customize her work with clients and to meet their specific goals and needs.

Cassandra Shepard

Cassandra brings her years of experience as a global C-suite executive to coaching her ideal clients: talented, driven women who are looking to move into higher levels of leadership and make greater contributions to their organization, while still living an amazing life.

Morgan Beard

Morgan helps clients overcome anxiety, depression, burnout, career stagnation, and self-doubt to create lives they are excited to live. She brings her personal and clinical experience, energy, enthusiasm, nurturing, patience and insight into every session. Whether it’s engaging in open conversation, creating a step-by-step plan, making art or tuning into the body, she intuitively combines the tools she's used over and over to help you overcome emotional and psychological blocks, illuminate the path to where you want to go and provide the right amount of support along the way to foster independence and self-actualization.

Karen Shapiro '88

Karen’s goal as a coach is to help her clients rise to new heights, with a renewed sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. Whether it be a career or life related goal (or both), Karen supports clients to navigate hurdles and be their best, most authentic self. She is a certified coach and lawyer. She coaches primarily by phone.

Katy Hansell '84

Katy works with individuals at any career stage (from college students through C-Suite executives) aspiring to improve their career and leadership performance or seeking a complete change in career direction. Her expertise is in helping clients identify their talent stack and value proposition to reposition them to leverage their strengths, align with their purpose, and maximize their impact and legacy. Katy works with clients all over the US remotely and uses customized approaches to optimize each client experience.

Chris Coward '87

Chris works with Executives and Leaders to create a fulfilling career and life. She is trained to help her clients discover their strengths, challenges and what truly lights them up so they can excel in their career. The industries that she most works with are non-profit, government, academia and financial. Her clients say that through their work with Chris they increase their confidence, productivity and life satisfaction.

Julia Wuench

I am a life-long learner, omnivert and empath. I have been through many career and life transitions, but no matter my function, I have always been a coach and teacher first. An adopted North Carolinian, I have loved what this region has to offer, professionally and personally.

The Authenticity Guide was founded on the belief that knowing and embracing one's true self, and being vulnerable, honest, and imperfect, can lead to wonderful relationships, which in turn lead to professional and personal success. I help individuals chart and plan their next career moves, while honoring their authentic values. I am an expert in networking to your next job and nailing your interviews. Let's work together! www.theauthenticityguide.com

Bin Yin - AM'12, PHD'16

Bin works with creative and inquiring minds who want to build up their career based on their own strengths and dreams. He helps clients clearly define needs and works with them to provide guidance to solve problems.

Ann Park '87

Ann Park is a coach and psychiatrist who brings a holistic approach to her exclusively female clients. Her specialties include a mindfulness-based approach to anxiety and stress, work-life integration, helping people resolve conflict, and coaching leadership skills in the executive setting. Ann has additional expertise in relationship coaching for parents and couples. She tele-coaches across the country and sees clients locally in the Tampa Bay area.

Liz (Linzer) Cohen '09

Liz teaches job seekers today’s most-effective action steps for finding career clarity, landing more interviews and offers, and navigating career transitions with authenticity, confidence, and joy. Liz previously worked at LinkedIn where she developed job seeker training programs for audiences across the globe. She brings a deep understanding of the tools and strategies required to succeed (and stay sane!) in today's job market.

Lauren Moses '02

Lauren’s goal is to strengthen a client's awareness of his/her inner resources and to support her client in achieving greater professional fulfillment. She loves to celebrate clients' progress toward their dreams.